@tylerburtonca I microblog on a !StatusNet server, networked to many others in what we call the !Fediverse. I'm running my own server, as do many others. You could too! The StatusNet software is now under active development as the !GNUsocial project. Some StatusNet servers (like mine) have a Twitterbridge that copies StatusNet posts to Twitter, and some also copy the Twitterstream back to StatusNet. My server is configured for an unlimited character count, so most of my posts are truncated as snippets with a link. You can get an account on one of the many open servers: http://federation.skilledtests.com/select_your_server.html